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Crisis in the CAUS

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William Martindale
5 years ago

Class of ‘98 Bachelor of Architecture

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Vicky Lewis
5 years ago

Thank you to the committee for pushing this action.

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Kelly Mcfadden
5 years ago

B.Arch 2014, WAAC 2014

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Scott Huebner
5 years ago

AIA MArch 1999 WAAC BArch 1998 Cowgill / WAAC

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Edward Weaver AIA
5 years ago

B.Arch 1986

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cary dunn
5 years ago

B.Arch 1981 M.Arch 1983

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neal duncan
5 years ago

B Arch 1980

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Nicholas Snyder AIA
5 years ago

Bachelor of Architecture 2001

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L Temple Washington
5 years ago

M. Arch 1980 Do not allow the excellence of the CAUS program to be destroyed. Olivio Ferrari and Dean Burchard created the unique pedagogy developed from the Bauhaus philosophy of eduction. As a result CAUS has maintained a top ranking among American Architecture schools for 50 years with an approach not found at any other university. My education prepared me for an enriched life and career as an architect and firm principal, as well as Associate Professor at CUA. The willful disrespect and disregard by Dean Blythe to Ferrari's legacy and to his senior founding faculty at CAUS as well as the manipulative means is insulting and narcissistic. Throwing out the proven philosophical core and replacing it with something akin to the celebrity pedagogy at the Ivies or other trade schools is a tragedy, and a slap in the face of the graduates. Ferrari stressed the principle of behaving personally respectful and professionally tough. Also, that professional issues such as the essence of the school and program should be publicly aired and debated, not privately attacked and undermined.

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Elif Patton
5 years ago

Even as an undergraduate student in the department of engineering, I could feel the negative impacts of Dean Blythe's administration through my involvement in interdisciplinary research projects. Despite these projects being beyond a doubt the most formative aspects of my education, Dean Blythe's lack of support and unwillingness to negotiate became one of the greatest hurdles we were forced to face in order to achieve success in our project. It is very disappointing when the ones you expect to support you and aid your success are in reality the ones rooting for your failure.

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Ashley Dimick
5 years ago

Class of 2016

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Tyler Brown
5 years ago

B.Arch '94, M.Arch '00, Adjunct Faculty 2000-20005

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Taro Hatanaka
5 years ago

Bachelor of Architecture. Class of 1998. First Class Certified Architect of JAPAN

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Jack Flaherty
5 years ago

Virginia Tech 2023

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Charles McSorley
5 years ago

B.Arch 2001 M.Arch 2003

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Logan Merrill
5 years ago

M. Arch 2019

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Ryan Uricks
5 years ago

M.Arch, 2019

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L Temple Washington
5 years ago

M. Arch. 1980 Do not destroy the unique Bauhaus pedagogy that Olivio Ferrari and Dean Burchard created 55 years ago. This program and the senior faculty are the reasons for the 50 years of top ranking for CAUS among all architecture schools. The great education I received under this approach and faculty has been critical to my professional development and career, as a designer, architect and firm principal and as a professor of architecture and urban design.

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Caroline Frantz
5 years ago

B. Arch, 2013

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L Temple Washington
5 years ago

M. Arch. 1980 Do not destroy the unique Bauhaus pedagogy that Olivio Ferrari and Dean Burchard created 55 years ago. This program and the senior faculty are the reasons for the 50 years of top ranking for CAUS among all architecture schools.